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Upendra is an Indian actor, director, producer, screenwriter, lyricist and singer. He stars primarily in Kannada films and is well-known in Sandalwood and Tollywood. He started his career under the director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director. His first directorial venture was Tharle Nan Maga.

Upendra was born on Sep 18, 1968 in a middle-class family at Koteshwara near Kundapura to Manjunath Rao (Father) & Anasuya (Mother). Upendra have an elder brother named Surendra. They belong to the Tulu speaking Koteshwara Magane Kota Brahmin community.

Kannada Actor Upendra

Upendra married former Miss Kolkata actress Priyanka Trivedi on December 14, 2003, they met for the first on the sets of the Telugu movie Raa and then on the sets of H2O. They have two kids son Ayush & daughter Aishwarya. Upendra and his family reside in Bangalore.
It was Upendra's life's ambition to become a director, for which he first sought to assist director Kashinath. He started off as a director with a typical Kashinath style comedy called Tharle Nan Maga in 1992. The film introduced a comedian called Jaggesh.

Upendra directed a horror suspense thriller next called Shhh! in 1993. The film featured his mentor Kashinath and a young producer and actor named Kumar Govind. Upendra came out as an independent director.

In the late 1990s he directed Om, which portrayed actual Bangalore gangsters, The movie was the highest grossing Kannada film of its time, followed by A, which was his debut film as an actor. Upendra, his next film, starred Raveena Tandon, a Bollywood actress. After a decade of acting in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films, he returned to the role of director with the multilingual movie Super, which was well-received critically and commercially.

Upendra is known for his work in films like A (1998), Upendra (1999), Preethse (2000), Raa (2001), Kutumba (2003), Raktha Kanneeru (2003), Gokarna (2003), Gowramma (2005), Auto Shankar (2005), Aishwarya (2006), Anatharu (2007), Budhivanta (2008), Super (2010), Katari Veera Surasundarangi (2012), and Kalpana (2012). Upendra has thus established himself as one of the most successful directors of Kannada cinema. He is currently one of the highest paid directors and actors in the Kannada Film Industry.